The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.
I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.
I just think that it's strong and it's important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it's about the birth of our Savior, and there's a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.
I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.
I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.
I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.
I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.
Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.
When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.
Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.
I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.
If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.
I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal... God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.
To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.
It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.
Just because something didn't work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.
